Michael Snydel

[Review] Aferim!

Leave it to a Romanian director to make a movie that best expresses the dangers of the dyed-in-the-wool mindset of modern America. Culled partly from historical...

[Slamdance Review] Mad

We as a culture have only recently started a collective conversation about the realities of mental illness and the ways they effect us. Premiering at Slamdance,...

[Review] Synchronicity

Late in Jacob Gentry’s thought-provoking but clumsy sci-fi time bender, Synchronicity, one character says to the other: “You have the power to cross the univers...

[Review] The Forest

Coming after Gus Van Sant’s critically torpedoed Sea of Trees, The Forest is the second recent movie to be set in Aokigahara, the mythic forest located at the b...